Lorcana Banned Cards: Every Ban by Format (Nov 2026)

The list, format by format

Source: Ravensburger's November 3 announcement and its March 26 Infinity notice; card data from LorcanaJSON and Lorcast, read November 8.

The Core ban reaches tournaments and competitive events at Ravensburger Game Hub stores that use Core. The April 2025 Core bans did not apply in China or Japan, which were promised separate announcements. Core is Set 9 and later since Attack of the Vine! released, so the rotation guide tells you which of your cards are in the pool at all. Infinity is a separate list: the November 3 notice names only Hiram there, so My Adventure Book is still legal in Infinity. The Core versus Infinity guide covers how the two formats differ.

What My Adventure Book did, in numbers

My Adventure Book is a 3-cost Emerald item from Attack of the Vine!. Its ability, New Memories, costs exert plus 1 ink: reveal the top card of your deck. A non-character card, or a character named Kevin, goes to your hand. Anything else goes to the bottom.

So a hit is a draw, and a miss costs one ink and moves a character out of the way. The hit rate is the share of non-characters in the deck. Averaged over what could be on top, a 60-card deck behaves like this:

Our arithmetic, exact rather than simulated: (60 minus characters) divided by 60, ignoring Kevin copies. Five activations means playing the book on turn 3 and using it every turn from turn 4 to turn 8.

Image credit: Disney/Pixar, Disney Lorcana, via Ravensburger's card image service.

Ravensburger's phrase "very few or, in some cases, no characters" matches the top rows. A deck with no characters turns a 3-cost item into a draw spell for one ink a turn, every turn. The designers' own explanation, from Play Design Manager Alyson Erb on November 3: the item "promoted a deck-building strategy that avoids characters and focuses almost entirely on items and actions."

Kevin is the odd line in the text. Kevin - Flightless Bird, also Set 13 Emerald, says that whenever he quests he puts himself on top of your deck. On paper the book then gives him straight back. Ravensburger's notice never mentions Kevin, and we did not count decklists.

How quickly Lorcana bans

Prerelease dates from LorcanaJSON and Lorcast, ban dates from Ravensburger's notices. Attack of the Vine! reached stores everywhere on July 24, so counted from release the Core ban took 102 days.

The April 2025 notice was the first ban since the game launched in August 2023. The two Core bans from that day no longer show on any current Core list: the Tournament Rules in force from July 14, 2026 print "No current banned cards" under Core, and both cards sit in sets (Sets 2 and 4) that left Core on September 5, 2025, when Fabled arrived. That makes My Adventure Book the only card on a Core ban list today, and it got there in a third of the time Fortisphere took.

Image credit: Disney Lorcana, via Ravensburger's card image service.

The reasoning has moved too. In April 2025 the complaint was that opponents could not interact with Hiram and Fortisphere before the combo finished. In November 2026 it is that one item let decks skip characters, the thing the game is about. Bend to My Will in Format Coconut is a different complaint. Ravensburger's post says every other player starts topdecking after it resolves, and the card's text is "Each opponent discards all cards in their hand." Ravensburger's Format Coconut page says the format had already been tested in China and at Disney Lorcana Challenge Indianapolis behind closed doors, and that companion-app access began July 28, 2026. Counted from the app date only, the ban came 98 days into the open beta.

Image credit: Disney/Pixar, Disney Lorcana, via Ravensburger's card image service.

What a Book player said two days later

Ravensburger's post gives the official reason, so one tournament player's reaction is worth setting beside it. On November 5, Prashaun Plays Lorcana put out a 25-minute video with a guest, Dad Lore, who had played Book. At 0:33 he says the ban hit him lightly: "this set, Book really didn't feel very meta-relevant and I was not doing much testing with Book."

At 7:20 he argues the strategy survives without the card: "the spirit of the book deck, right? It's alive and well," and he points to other builds that draw cards, wipe the board and drop locations. That is one player's opinion, and it sits against Ravensburger's stated reason that the item let decks skip characters.

Where the wrong list is still showing

Two references players use still show the wrong list as of November 8. Lorcast's card data marks My Adventure Book legal in both Core and Infinity and Hiram - Toymaker legal in Infinity. It still flags Hiram and Fortisphere as banned in Core, a leftover from 2025, so a deckbuilder reading it misses two of the three current bans. Bend to My Will shows as not legal in Core only because Set 6 rotated.

The Tournament Rules PDF linked from Ravensburger's Resources page is still the edition effective July 14, 2026. Its section 1.6.2 says Core has no banned cards and Infinity bans Hiram, so an organizer working from that file would find no ban on My Adventure Book. LorcanaJSON's October 16 file carries no legality data at all. Until the PDF is reissued, the November 3 post is the current source.

What to do about it

Playing Core at a Game Hub store: take every copy out. Decks built to avoid characters are what Ravensburger just said it does not want, and we have no decklist counts to name a replacement.

Playing Infinity: nothing changes; check the November 3 list rather than a database flag.

Casual or kitchen-table play: the ban only governs tournaments and competitive events. Ravensburger's earlier ban notices say banned cards are not removed from the game and players are encouraged to keep playing them with friends and family.

Our read: this is the cheap kind of ban. My Adventure Book is an uncommon, so nobody lost a chase card, and it landed in the fourth month of the rotation rather than the second year. The gap between that and 326 to 860 days for the earlier bans is the real news. If you are building around a new Emerald item or draw engine, assume Ravensburger will look at consistency in the first season now, not after two years.

Not checked here: decklist counts and prices.